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Mohammad Foladi, PH.D.
Mansoor Ebrahimi, PH.D.
 
Abstract   
The current article tries to study the natural elements mentioned in the poems of two important poets of Khorasani style i.e. Unsuri Balkhi and Manuchehri Damghani. For that matter, first, those elements in the poems of Unseri were defined based on ten ingresses and with an emphasis on plants and animals and then with the help of SPSS software these were extracted, analyzed and compared with the elements in the poems of Manuchehri. Results show that almost all literature of Manuchehri and Unsuri contain at least one natural element which is indicator of a particular emphasis of these two poets on nature and environment. Flowers, plants, birds and animals have been reflected widely in their poems. Among birds, although nightingale often reflected in the poems of these two poets but birds are more common in the works of Manuchehri. Among domesticated animals, horse, elephant and camel and among undomesticated animals, tigers have applied most that have been analyzed by the current paper.
 
 

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The stylistics deals with studying repetitions, and so employing the statistical analyses in stylistic evaluations proved to be useful in studying the frequencies. Whereas the descriptive statistics cannot always explain the stylistic fluctuations, using inferential statistics theories in evaluating stylistic phenomena will bear a scientific accuracy. “Stylometry” is the term that has been coined for studying stylistics with the use of computer.  In the present article, the author tried to evaluate imagination in the construction of simile in Khorasani style. In doing so, the books of twelve eminent poets of Khorasani style were studied diachronically and the relation of literal similes and imagination was examined. To analyze the data, the author adapted an inferential approach and calculated the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The results showed that the correlation coefficient was 0 /374 and the significance level was 0/626 and therefore it could be said that there is a positive and direct relationship between variables. In stylistics terms, it means that the more compressed the angle of simile in Khorasani style, the more frequent literal similes would be, which is in line with the dominant norms of Khorasani Style.